[Expert]Interview with a Lambda[AMA]

So for something different, we're going to have a direct dialogue and focus on a one resident Lambda Arthur Calculus / Sgt Kabukiman(?) and ask him any questions we have, see what makes him tick, and what the future holds for the last man alive to have ever read the standard.

I'll start off.

Lambda, you seem to have a propensity for C(89) over LISP(Scheme), is this because of your relation with dmr? Or because you prefer the McCarthy-derived syntax or just an overall greater personal familiarity with C?

I thought Kabukiman was electrocuted to death by the Jews.

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>>1
Lambda, you seem to have a propensity for C(89) over LISP(Scheme), is this because of your relation with dmr?
AINT NO FUCKIN LISP PROGRAMMERS WHO ACT LIKE RETOIDED STACKBOYS. GOTTA SHOW THE STACK BOYS WHAT'S WHAT; GOTTA PROGRAM IN STACK BOY LANGUAGES TO DO THAT. DEANIS RICKY WAS A GOOD MAN, WROTE A SOLID LANGUAGE, AND STOOD BY AS IT GOT TORN APART BY A BUNCH OF MENACING HYENAS, STACK BOYS, AND YASHAVANT KANETKARS. I WRITE C CODE TO SHOW STACKBOYS WHAT'S WHAT, AND SCHEME FOR MY OWN PERSONAL SHIT COS KIDZ DEEZ DAYS R TOO STUPID TO LEARN DA WAY OF DA LAMBDA CALCULUS; DEY'RE TOO STUPID TO EVEN GET C RIGHT.

Or because you prefer the McCarthy-derived syntax or just an overall greater personal familiarity with C?
NOW WHY DA FUCK DID MCCARTHY DIE? DO U THINK HE WAS JUST COPYIN DEANIS OR SUMTHIN? I MET HIM ONCE BUT I THINK I CAME ON TOO STRONG N HE RAN OFF.

>>2
I thought Kabukiman was electrocuted to death by the Jews.
HE FELL VICTIM TO KABUTERIMON'S ELECTROSHOCKER ATTACK. I AINT HIM, I'M LAMBDA ARTHUR CALCULUS AND KABUTERIMON IS MY DIGIVOLVED FORM.

>>3,4
NOW WAT DA FUK IS UR PROBLEM

I'm pretty sure he prefers the C99 standard

>>6 AT LEAST FUCKIN RICKY DIDNT KILL HIMSELF OVER C99. FUCK.

>>7
Shove a stack up your ass, kid.

>>5
You mentioned how this generation's programming hopefuls aren't able to grok the lambda calculus, and this has been reflected in academia with MIT abandoning Scheme for it's 6.001 course and replacing it with Python. Do you see this trend continuing as the young minds of today become progressively bogged down with inane frivolities? Will this singularize, as hard tech progresses and a neural interface is achieved, to the point where all that the "programmer" does is think about the program they want and the machine then produces the code autonomously in response?

>>8
WHY DA FUCK WOULD I BE STUPID ENOUGH TO ADOPT YOUR BAD HABITS WHEN I'M ALREADY WELL AWARE OF THEIR DANGERS, STACK BOY?

>>9
Do you see this trend continuing as the young minds of today become progressively bogged down with inane frivolities?
I DUNNO. DA PEOPLE AT MIT R FUCKIN CRAZY. FUCKIN RICARD STALLMAN LIVES THERE. U EVER SEEN HIM IN REAL LIFE? I THINK HE REALLY IS A STALL MAN TOO, USES THE STALLS INSTEAD OF THE URINALS WHEN HE NEEDS TO TAKE A PISS. NOT ME, I GO BEHIND THE TREES IF THERE ARE TREES AND I'M WELL COVERED, OTHERWISE I JUST USE A URINAL.

Will this singularize, as hard tech progresses and a neural interface is achieved, to the point where all that the "programmer" does is think about the program they want and the machine then produces the code autonomously in response?
FUCK MAN, I HAD THE IDEA OF NEURAL INTERFACES ONCE WHEN I WAS STONED. COMPUTER'S WILL BE SMALL ENOUGH TO IMPLANT INTO PEOPLE AND POOF! ALL THE MORONS WHO GET THE IMPLANTS WON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT PROGRAMMING AND THEY'LL PROBABLY BE EXPLOITED BY SOME HYENAS FOR BEING DOOFUSES. DEY'LL PROBABLY HUNT DOWN ALL DA GOOD PROGRAMMERS LIKE OL LAMBDA ARTHUR CALCULUS TOO! LOOKS LIKE I'M IN DANGER, >>9, BETTER HEAD FOR DA HILLS I BETTER!

ANYWAY, I CANT SEE INTO DA FUCKIN FUTURE SO I CANT ANSWER UR QUESTION. MAYBE SUM FUCKIN ROBOTS WILL DO ALL DA PROGRAMMING AND GET ALL DA IDEAS, AND DA HUMANS WON'T HAVE TO DO SHIT. DOSE ARE JOHN MCCARTHY'S SEXUAL FANTASIES THOUGH, NOT MINE. GEE, I WISH I HADN'T COME ON TOO STRONG WHEN I SAW HIM.

http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1339576156

>>11
WAT DO U WANT, SUSSMAN?

I want you to give a damn, Lambda. I want you to bestow a little humanity on this board.

Indeed, you are an autist and as such it is your license to offend. Regardless, your behaviour is beyond offensive, Lambda. I demand change. I demand that you forget about Dennis Ritchie and move on with your life.

Do it for the good of the board, Lambda.

>>15 FUCKIN SUSSMAN. I CHALLENGE U TO A GAME OF LAMBDA WARS. IF U LOSE U STOP ANNOYING ME, AND IF I I LOSE I'LL LEAVE /prog/. U ON?

>>16
I will stop annoying you, Lambda. Think about what I said.

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>>10
Alright, fair enough, let's go in the other direction then. What first got you into programming? How much support did you get from your family and the community to pursue programming? What was the first program you ever made?

What first got you into programming?
I DUNNO I JUST WANTED TO PROGRAM SHIT SO I WENT TO BELL LABS

How much support did you get from your family and the community to pursue programming?
FUCK DEM. FUCK GUY L STEELE DAT SON OF A BITCH.

What was the first program you ever made?
A PROGRAM DAT COPIES stdin TO stdout, BASICALLY.

>>20
A PROGRAM DAT COPIES stdin TO stdout, BASICALLY.
What a bore! My first proggie was a hexedit hack for Baldurs Gate to set all prime attribs to 25. Then I discovered Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk are Jews, and Baldur's Gate is heavily based on Judaism, so I dont like this game anymore.

>>21
editing a file
programming
lol my sides

>>22
Editing XML is programming, so...

>>22
That's kind of what most programming is, editing source files.

>>23
XSLT perhaps, but XML is not a programming language.

>>25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7w-TXinPE
Introduction to HTML Programming

>>22
le quoting memes
le my sides
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>QUOTES
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>>26
OK, I guess some random shmuck on jewtube knows better.

>>20
Could you elaborate on what happened with you and Guy?

>>24
Why would /prog/ use an hex editor for source code?

>>30
autism

J`E'W

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>>29
HES MY FUCKIN BIOLOGICAL TWIN BROTHER. SEPARATED AT BIRTH. FAMILY TOOK HIM AND LEFT ME. WANTED ONLY ONE FUCKING CHILD AT THE TIME.

AND FUCKING SUSSMAN'S BEEN IN MY FUCKING WAY SINCE I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO BOTH OF THOSE FUCKERS

DAT FUCKING WIMP KNOWS HE CAN'T BEAT ME AT LAMBDA WARS, SO HE RUNS OFF EVERY TIME I CHALLENGE HIM.

WHO DA FUCK DOES DAT RETOID THINK HE IS WITH HIS STUPID MONKEY HAT ANYWAY?

>>37
I don't blame him, you're the strongest lambda warrior alive. I'm stronger than him and I know I'm not able to beat you.
>>36
So he, in collaboration with the Sussman, basically took credit for all of your work?

>>39
So he, in collaboration with the Sussman, basically took credit for all of your work?
NO. I TAKE CREDIT FOR MY OWN WORK. SUSSMAN'S JUST A DOOFUS IN A MONKEY HAT WHO KEEPS MONKEYING WITH ME AS HE HAS ON THIS VERY BOARD.